Complicated GPA Question!

[Old_Row]

Originally Posted by cwells13

I have looked at both the greek life page for my university and the individual chapter websites and they all say something along the lines of the GPA requirement having to be a 3.0 from high school or a 2.5 in your most recently completed college semester but they never mention anything about your cumulative. I also read somewhere online (and of course I can't find it now or I'd link it) that if you are a transfer student, they only look at your most recent semester because when you transfer schools, your GPA does not transfer, it starts over.

I don't think that sounds right because you could have a horrible GPA in previous semesters and be on academic probation but still rush if you somehow managed to get a 2.5 that one semester. So many people come here that seem like they are grasping for straws and trying to game the system and those really low minimum GPAs and poorly worded pages seem to kind of encourage that.

It seems to me that minimum GPAs for rush are set ridiculously low so most people don't feel left out from rushing and are allowed to go through even if they have no chance of getting a bid with a GPA that no one is going to take. Even if the chapters at your school have published minimum GPAs that are less than what you have right now, it doesn't mean that that is what they will take.

You should probably spend some time getting used to being at your college and studying and making sure you can get a decent GPA before you rush because being in a sorority is very time consuming and can be very distracting!

[cwells13]

Originally Posted by Old_Row

I don't think that sounds right because you could have a horrible GPA in previous semesters and be on academic probation but still rush if you somehow managed to get a 2.5 that one semester. So many people come here that seem like they are grasping for straws and trying to game the system and those really low minimum GPAs and poorly worded pages seem to kind of encourage that.

It seems to me that minimum GPAs for rush are set ridiculously low so most people don't feel left out from rushing and are allowed to go through even if they have no chance of getting a bid with a GPA that no one is going to take. Even if the chapters at your school have published minimum GPAs that are less than what you have right now, it doesn't mean that that is what they will take.

You should probably spend some time getting used to being at your college and studying and making sure you can get a decent GPA before you rush because being in a sorority is very time consuming and can be very distracting!

That makes a lot of sense. That's why I was asking. I'm not trying to "game the system" or anything, I'm honestly just curious. I'm not too worried about my GPA. I have a cumulative 2.7 but my GPA for this current semester is a 4.0 and that will raise my cumulative even higher once this semester is over. If I do not receive a bid because of my GPA, then I'll just increase it and re-rush.